The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-06-09

From Mondays Daily.
GAS FOUND.
Or. McCandIess Rsiteratcs His As
sertion Made on Saturday Last,
That He Has Discovered Natural Gas
in the Vicinity of EmDOria,
And That it Has Been Found in
Large and Sufficient Volume
To Pay Any Company That May Take
Hold and 0eveIops 1t.
Some Interesting Information Regard
ing Natures Great IIluminatiVe.

The article which appeared in THE
NEWS of Saturday has created con-
siderable comment, and various theo-
ries have been promulgated as to what
kind of gas it was and where it was
found, one party even suggesting that
possibly the doctors had tapped some
place where a gas main or pipe had
leaked into and impregnated the sur
rounding earth.
When this theory was mentioned to
DR.. McCandless this morning he
merely laughed, stating that to any
one acquainted with DR.. Janeway or
himself the absurdity of the idea was
enough to condemn it.
On being inter gated as to how THE
NEWS version of the interview with
him had been interpreted in it's col
umns on Saturday last, he said that,
while some of his statements we're evil
IDENTIFY misunderstood as to location,
ETC., yet he was still prepared to assert
that he knew just where
to tap natural gas for EN-
poria, and in such quantities
as would insure it being paying in
vestment for any parties who might
wish it. He also affirmed that there was
no doubt in the matter, as it had been
tested and burned. When it is known
that the doctor has given this subject
much thought and study, having travel
ed extensively through the known and
developed natural gas regions, and
given it's workings and finding great
attention, it will be understood that his
statements are worthy of great consid-
Grafton and therefore thoroughly trust
worthy.
The doctor stated that no one in the
| city was more eager or anxious for En-
poria to boom or got to the front than
he, but he considered that the time, pa
| tient research and money that he had
| expended in making the discovery he
had made was worth something, and
he felt that he was entitled to some
| consideration. lie also stated that ne
| gOtiationS were now on foot which
would probably result i'll DIR. Janeway
and himself disclosing their valuable
discovery for the benefit of the COM
munity.
In connection with this subject, the
following extract from an article in
the Minneapolis Messenger may be of
interest to our readers as giving some
light on the subject:
Several gas wells have been opened
at Paola, Miami county, in this state,
all of which are at this time furnishing
4 GunnlU CO
is the flow that company is being
formed to pipe it into Kansas City, a
distance of nearly forty miles, in which
Kansas City capitalists, principally, are
interested. The depth of these wells
varies somewhat in the same locality,
those at Paola varying from $50 to 304
feet from the surface of the ground to
the gas sand" or sand rock in which
the gas is found. The gas finds, how
ever, are not confined exclusively to the
sand rocks, as abundant supplies of it
have been found in the Trenton lime
stone formation.
Probably the most productive gas
fields known to exist at the present
time are those in the vicinity of Pitts
burg.
To show the great value of natural
gas to any community in which it eX-
lists, it is sufficient to state that in the
| city of PittSburg the consumption of
gas has displaced 10000 tons of coal
per day, gas taking its place for all the
purposes for which coal had been here
tofOre used. The two principal wells
| of this group, the Burns and the Della
matin, are about 1000 feet down to the
fourth sand stratum, in which the gas
| is found.
| AT Findlay, Ohio, where gas was de-
! veloped in November, 1884, the wells
were sent down to depth of only 100
feet, at which depth vast deposits were
opened in the upper and lower
''Silurian Era" much older fOrma-
tiOn than that in which it appeared at
Pittsburg, and strangely enough at a
less depth from the surface by 800 feet.
Findlay is west from Pittsburg, and
| Paola, where gas is found at 800 feet,
| is long way west of Findlay. 1t is a
| question for the scient lists, whether
| the degree of longitude effects the depth
below the surface of the earth, at
which the strata lie that bear these
wonderful deposits.
Gas in abundance has been found at
! Fort Scott, Bourbon county, at depth
of only trifie over 200 feet. Fort
| Scott doubtless is in the same great oil
and gas field as Paola, being only
| about fifty miles due south of that
point, while at the two intermediate
places, La Cygne and Pleasanton, gas
has not been struck. There can, SEEM
ingly, be no good reason why coal, gas
and oil may not be found right here in
Minneapolis. The fact that coal has
been found near us, that gas is now
flowing near Abilene, and that
for years on many of the
farms all about us traces of coal have
qeen found in digging for water. All
4hese facts ought to stimulate our peo-
pie to make the effort to ascertain
whether we may not be as fortunate as
other communities have been that have
gone to work with a determination to
know what mine of wealth old mother
and well directed effort to obtain it.